Who did you go to prom with?

 WHO DID I GO TO THE PROM WITH?

My first ‘prom’ (which was the football banquet) was with Joe Elmore. I don’t remember much about the meal, dance or anything else. I do remember that I had to borrow a formal from my friend Sara Nell Zeanah and getting out of Joe’s truck (yes, he used his daddy’s truck because he was a farm boy), I hung my shoe heel in the satin of the gown and tore a triangle in it. I might mention it was a large triangle. Mother, being a wonderful seamstress, did her best to mend it but it was still damaged. I never borrowed a formal again.

I usually was dating someone who had already graduated and was in the military so I did not date the high school boys often. Of course, I did run around with Max, Louie, Richard, Freddie. I dated Johnny Mosley who was my very best friend all through the last four years of school. To me, he was like a brother.

I went to four football banquets, but I have no memory of a ‘date’. Most of the time, I went with a group of girls who also were dateless. Of course the football banquet would require an escort. My daddy went with me to a band function held in a restaurant.

My Junior Prom was with a date, I think. Don’t remember who. I do know Mother bought me a gorgeous royal blue gown for it and a week before the prom, we pulled the gown out of the wardrobe and it was horribly faded in spots. We went back to the store and we couldn’t return it but the manager had a beautiful white gown that he let us have for $15.00. I remember paying for the other one on the “lay-away plan”.

So next year when I went to the Senior Prom, I went with some girl friends and wore a gorgeous lavender dress. The royal blue had faded evenly and was beautiful. Good time with my friends, male and female. High school was a BLAST!!